Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In case you’re wondering, there really is such a thing as a “clurichaun.” I mean, there’s such a thing as a mythical Irish fairy called a “clurichaun.” I tell you: the things you have to know to be a cartoonist! Mostly, you have to know how to get to the Google search page. If it seems I’m chronically nostalgic for all things pre-digital, let me tell you how cartoonists used to do things. They actually kept catalogs and files of clippings at hand, just so they’d know how to draw, say, a lawn mower. Now? Pffft! Google “lawn mower” and instantly see images of just about every type of lawn mower ever invented or imagined. Also back then, every good cartoonist’s shelves groaned with dictionaries and thesauruses and encyclopedias! Now, it’s dust and old Beanie Babies.
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Sometimes the internet can be a wonderful thing. I am about to move to an apartment of my own now that things have gotten worked out. And online I have been able to establish an electric power account, gas service, reserve a moving trailer and buy renter’s insurance. I also found two places to get furniture to set up the place at good prices. Plus keep in touch with you good folks here and read Jimmy’s comic.
So exhausted I am crashing early as soon as I feed Dickens and put some sheets on bed. I am far from done but I am DONE. Have to go see my endo guy and I need to run several errands enroute to Tulsa.
So, I need to get up! So I need to go down.
That’s good news, Mark. I’m happy for you — it’s about time good fortune came your way!
Thank you Charlotte. Good friends help tremendously and I am glad to have made so many here.
Strip of 03.20.17:
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans” – John Lennon
“Man plans, God laughs” – Yiddish proverb
Good morning Villagers….
Mark, that is GOOD news to read. Like Miss Charlotte, I am so happy for you. You have come far, my friend.
…and today’s real time strip is spot on…
Had company here yesterday, one of my sisters dropped by. She and I both agreed it’s not safe to give Dad the Lunesta. instead a couple of Benedryl….which I did. Dad is funny, he wanted to know if I was going to give him the ‘sleeping’ pill. Told him no, I’d give him the Benedry, the little pink pill at 8 ish. I did….at 8:15 he said he wasn’t feeling them and he want a couple of more…told him no, it had just been 15 minutes, to wait and it’ll kick in. And I wonder where I get my instant gratification from…
Then a friend came by to finish repairing the hole in kitchen ceiling damaged by leaky roof. He and his friend picked up a big soft velour painting of kittens that some one was throwing out. Framed too. He an Ian even hung it in the sun porch. Not much room to hang on the wall here. Lots of pics…including the dogs playing poker. And every pic tells a story.
ya’ll have a blessed day….
Jackie, be very careful out there driving today. Put off grocery shopping yesterday….will be doing it this afternoon when my baby sister gets off work. Hate grocery shopping and putting gas in car…gas in car was one of the first things I taught Ian…. didn’t trust him grocery shopping 🙂
GR 😉 no Stevie, but a dang good song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4-m-cIZf4
…yeah, maybe I should have it for breakfast 🙂
This photo came with today’s AWAD. Peace,
http://wordsmith.org/words/images/osmosis_large.jpg
didn’t post the link….hope it’s not a clue as what to expect the rest of the day.
http://cheezburger.com/8820378368
sitting here last night, had TV on, playing a little solitaire, you know you’re losing ‘it’ when you’re looking at the TV, hand is on mouse and you’re looking for the curser on the TV screen 🙂 that is bad, I shouldn’t have even told you guys that one……
Emb. good one.
Here’s another, from today’s Writer’s Almanac.
When Einstein was asked what he would have done if his theory of general relativity had not held up, he replied, “Then I would have been sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.”
Peace,
Last item in today’s Gocomics scan. Story line is too complex to summarize, but this is cute.
http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane
Peace,
emb: That reminds of a wedding we attended where, following “forsaking all others”, the preacher added “which for some folks is hard to do.”
Mark, it sounds like you’ve got it all organized!
They just changed places: 4 eggs! Still cannot tell tercel from falcon. Peace,
http://chesapeakeconservancy.org/explore/wildlife-webcams/peregrine-falcon/
It is going to be 92 here today. Damn, summer arrived early and I am wearing a sweater, black.
Rick, that Yiddish quote matches my current experience.
Last week UPS delivered my tabletop Dobsonian reflector telescope. With its 100mm mirror and two eyepieces it provides either 20X or 40X viewing, which should be perfect for this beginner. I’m set except for one thing… every night since then, and, according to my whether app for the next 10 days, it has been and will be cloudy. 🙁
So hot here I am running air with top down on Jack. Getting ready to go top down on Jackie.
Trucker: Congrats / the new Dob. At least you’re not on a $5,000 cruise to Hawaii, clouded out on the ‘Big One’ [and Big Island] eclipse in ’96.
Still 3 eggs, none hatched at Decorah North.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/decorah-eagles-north-nest
Peace,
Ghost, thank you for recommending the black Mustang convertible. I am having fun driving Jack with top down and rock music blaring.
It has been 20 plus years since all the workmen checked me out when I drove by.
Jack has his top down, right? You haven’t taken the next step….
We have a motel reservation in north Georgia for the eclipse next August. Since we planned that far ahead and it will be the last opportunity in our lifetime, an early season hurricane would not surprise me 🙂
Only Jack is top less. I did remove the last black sweater I had on but there was a white rather sheer athletic tee under it with a hoodie
‘All men are prancing, leering billygoats.’ Elaine, numerous times. Peace,
emb: Baaa